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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 5, 2020 | Bonhams | London | Fine Japanese Art | 163 | $****** - ****** | A Red-Lacquer, Sheet Lead and Shell Kikyoku (Cabinet for the Sencha Tea Ceremony) |
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46.2 x 62 x 27.3 cm (18.19 x 24.41 x 10.75 in)
Maki-e to urushi-e no tenrankai (Exhibition of Lacquerware and Lacquer Painting), Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture, Shindoya, June 28 1942, with exhibition leaflet in which the present lot, Tachiaoimon kikyokutana (Set of kikyoku shelves with hollyhock design), is first on the list
Constructed probably from hinoki (Japanese cypress) in a variant of the typical shodana cabinet form, comprising a cupboard with fully detachable door to the right and a slightly narrower open section to the left, the cupboard with a tray supported on two rails, the open section with a drawer below; the exterior covered in dark red lacquer with the texture of the reinforcing fabric deliberately left visible, the door, the drawer front, and the base of the open section finished in brighter red lacquer; the pictorial decoration confined to the door and drawer front, the door with a bold design of hollyhocks executed in gold hiramaki-e, thick shell and thick lead, the drawer front with grasses in gold and silver hiramaki-e, the perimeter of the door with formal floral motifs in shell; the sides of the tray with similar motifs in maki-e, the interior and base polished black roiro lacquer; the door and drawer front each with a chrysanthemum-shaped silver and gilt openwork pull; signed in silver hiramaki-e on the reverse of the door Jun'ichiro saku (Made by Jun'ichiro); with a wood tomobako box, a contemporary exhibition checklist and an exhibition leaflet with brief texts by the artist and two other writers (dated 1941), the checklist and leaflet in an envelope addressed to Uchida Sokan, a lacquerer resident in Kashiwazaki City (see below); the lid of the tomobako inscribed on the outside Kikyoku tachiaoimon (Cabinet for the Sencha tea ceremony with hollyhock design), signed inside Jun'ichiro kore o seisu (Jun'ichiro made this) and sealed.
